DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps , the ability to gain deep insights into system behavior, diagnose issues, and improve overall performance is one of the top priorities. Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems.

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DZone

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Distributed systems are composed of multiple systems that are wired together to provide a specific functionality. Systems that operate at a cloud scale can get expected or unexpected surges of traffic from one or multiple callers and are expected to perform in a predictable manner.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This is particularly relevant in the domain of reimbursement calculation systems. The Monolithic Challenge Imagine a scenario where you have a large-scale, monolithic system - possibly a bulky C# console application or an extensive SQL Server stored procedure.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We’ll start by defining what sharding is and why it’s essential for modern, high-performance databases. In this section, we’ll walk through the factors to consider when selecting a shard key, common mistakes to avoid, and how to balance performance with even data distribution. Here’s what you can expect to learn: What is Sharding?:

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report In today's digital landscape, the growing importance of monitoring and managing application performance cannot be overstated.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. The delta value can be positive or negative.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable. Find and prevent application performance risks A major challenge for DevOps and security teams is responding to outages or poor application performance fast enough to maintain normal service.

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DZone

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building performant services and systems is at the core of every business. Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks. However, production environments are chaotic landscapes that exact a heavy performance toll when not maintained and monitored.

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation. Developers could understand and manage the entire systems intricacies.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is where observability comes into play, offering critical insights into how your system is performing and why issues occur. But the way containers are continuously created and destroyed can sometimes present challenges with monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In both bands, performance characteristics remain consistent for the entire uptime of the JVM on the node, i.e. nodes never jumped the bands. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a. This was our starting point for troubleshooting.

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DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures. We’ll also dive deeper into SSTables , MemTables , and compaction strategies for optimizing performance in high-load environments.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. Overlooking the nuances of the system state — spanning infrastructure, application performance, and user interaction — is a risk businesses can't afford.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the last 15+ years, Ive worked on designing APIs that are not only functional but also resilient able to adapt to unexpected failures and maintain performance under pressure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Whether you’re troubleshooting a specific issue or looking to improve overall system performance, Distributed tracing equips you with the tools you need to make informed decisions and maintain a high standard of application performance. They use Kubernetes to power their marketplace.

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DZone

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Reference data sources don’t always require ACID transaction capabilities, rather need support for fast read queries often based on simple data access patterns, and event-driven architecture to ensure the target systems remain up-to-date.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Dynatrace platform automatically captures and maps metrics, logs, traces, events, user experience data, and security signals into a single datastore, performing contextual analytics through a “power of three AI”—combining causal, predictive, and generative AI. What’s behind it all? The result?

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Nowadays, many performance testers with many years of experience in IT have a lot of confusion and are still confused about the technologies they worked with and were used in their projects for years. and must have extensive experience in specialized skills. and must have extensive experience in specialized skills.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Other data sources, including APIs and log files — are used to expand access, often to external or proprietary systems. In fact, it’s likely that some of your critical business systems already write business data to log files.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As cloud networks continue to expand, security concerns become increasingly complex, making it critical to ensure robust protection without sacrificing performance. These advanced firewalls are integral to cloud security strategies, combining multiple layers of defense with optimized performance to tackle evolving threats.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. What’s more, organizations are no longer concerned only about application performance and sales numbers. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When I founded Dynatrace, I aimed to bridge the gap between IT performance and user experience. Using causal AI, we identified and resolved performance issues automatically. With these insights, you can act on improving the reliability, performance, and user experience of your entire customer journey.

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Analytics Logistics IoT Mobile 286

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Provide an at-a-glance view of your system’s health and performance Dynatrace guides you in quickly getting the most valuable SLOs set up in just a few clicks. SLOs provide immediate information about critical services’ long-term performance and experiences.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Using a seasonal baseline, you can monitor sales performance based on the past fourteen days. In application performance management, acting with foresight is paramount.

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Traffic Metrics Analytics Monitoring 262

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As batch jobs run without user interactions, failure or delays in processing them can result in disruptions to critical operations, missed deadlines, and an accumulation of unprocessed tasks, significantly impacting overall system efficiency and business outcomes. The urgency of monitoring these batch jobs can’t be overstated.

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